[od-discuss] OD conformant proposal: Open Government Licence v3.0

Tue Oct 21 10:36:51 UTC 2014

Jo:

Just to make sure that we follow our own process, could you confirm that the following is an accurate representation of the case for approval of OGL v3 please, or make any amendments?

Regards

Andrew

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1.  State the rationale for the new license.

This is an update to UK OGL v2.  The principal change is to clarify how the licensee should implement attribution statements.  This is necessary in order to bring under the OGL certain UK Government datasets in which the attribution statements need to be precisely handled, for instance because of third-party rights

2.  Explain whether the license may be used by any licensor, or is specific to an organization/place/jurisdiction. We generally frown on the latter (see proliferation below), only making politically expedient exceptions (eg, the organization is a national government; and these are categorized as “non-reusable”).

Like its predecessors, the licence is intended principally for information providers in the UK Public Sector and contains some specific exceptions and definitions for this purpose. 

3.  Compare and contrast to the most similar approved as OD-conformant licenses.

OGL v3 is similar to OGL v2.  The principal change is the language on attribution statements.

4.  Explain the benefit the new license brings over already approved OD-conformant licenses which would outweigh the costs of license proliferation? (Link is re software licenses, but the same principles and costs apply.)

The provisions on attribution statements in OGL v3 will allow more UK public sector data to be published under the OGL itself, rather than under some of the data-specific licences currently used to ensure completeness of attribution statements.  The new provisions are also intended to allow users who use data from multiple providers, such as Open Street Map, to have a practical and light-weight means of meeting the attribution statement requirements in their use of OGL-licensed information.

5.  Identify which recommended conformant licenses the new license is compatible with, and how – by alignment (permissions identical or a superset of existing license, conditions identical or a subset) and/or express permission to license the original and/or adaptations of the licensed work under an existing license.

These terms are compatible with the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 and the Open Data Commons Attribution License.

6. Provide a link to any public drafting process (e.g., conducted on a public communication forum of some sort; multiple drafts presented to that forum) for the license.

There has been public discussion of the drafting on https://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/od-discuss/2014-September/001014.html .  Multiple drafts have been present in that forum and changes suggested by others have been adopted.

From: od-discuss [mailto:od-discuss-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Ellis, Jo
Sent: 21 October 2014 11:04
To: 'od-discuss at lists.okfn.org'
Subject: Re: [od-discuss] OD conformant proposal: Open Government Licence v3.0

Following comments from Diane and Andrew on Friday I have made some further amendments to the draft OGLv3.0 at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C3jPK5U61GU6hMmrEQHJ-TuC8MVPn8ngodlexlQsuRk/edit?usp=sharing 

The first paragraph of the attribution requirement section now reads:

“… by including or linking to any attribution statement specified by the Information Provider(s)”

I've had confirmation offline from Diane that she is content with that from an OGL/CC-BY alignment point of view.  

I look forward to hearing from you all.

Jo

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